Pumping-engine plant.



O. T. MYERS.

PUMPING ENGINE PLANT.

APPLIGATIO fl rum) AUG.1, 1910.

1,034,490. Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

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PUMPING-ENGINE PLANT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 63, 191%.;

Application filed August 1, 1910. Serial No. 574,970.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS T. Mynns, of Racine, Wisconsin, have invented a Pumping-Engine Plant, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to heavy-duty pumping-plants and more especially to the special type of pumping-engines wherein plungers are caused to reciprocate transversely in vertical cylinders provided with intake and discharge valves at the top and bottom. Such engines are compound-engincs with high-and-low pressure cylinders and cranks connected by a fly-wheel or equalizing-shaft, and with a pair of such vertical cylinders for each of the highand low-pressure sides, each side carrying a plunger, the two ends of which reciprocate in different cylinders. There being, therefore, four such cylinders of large dimensions which work together in parallel, it has been a matter of some difliculty to so arrange the piping system as to provide for an inlet and discharge from all four cylinders. Heretofore this has been done by providing an intake midway between the two pairs of cylinders and connected thereto at the bottoniby means of two branches on either side, and a similar branched piping system at the top leading out in the same direction as and immediately over the intake. As it is cus tomary in plants of this sort to pass the water pumped through the condenser and thus avoid the necessity having a separate circulating-system "and pump, the above described system has necessitated, on account of the very large pipes used, the placing of the condenser at that end of the plant most distant from the engine-cylinders; which in turn has necessitated a very long exhaustepiping from the latter to they condenser, together with several rectangular bends, which as is well-known to those skilled in the art, lower seriously the effective vacuum obtainable, at the engine cylinder, thus aitecting'in a notable degree the economy of the engine.

My invention has, therefore, for its object to provide a better relative disposition of engine, condenser and discharge-piping, whereby the condenser is brought very much closer to the engine, so as to practically diminish by one-half the length of piping and number of bends required.

According to my invention, the dischargepiping, instead of causing the discharge to pass out through the four-branched at the lower end of the plant, the pair of cylinders on the high-pressure side are connected directly by pipes with the respective cylinders on the low pressure side, and the discharge from the latter in turn is carried out through a pipe having two branches only to one side of the plant, at which point the condenser is placed.

To illustrate this novel disposition, Thave shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings a plan-view,side-elevation and end-elevation respectively of a plant so disposed.

The reference letters refer each to the same part in each figure of the drawings.

In the drawings, a and I) represent the high and low-pressure cylinders respectively of a horizontal compound-engine whose flywheel shaft is shown at c and fly-wheel at d,

and which has crank-disks e and j on its ends connected by the connecting-rods g and /1 to the highand low-pressure piston-rods which are concealed within the engineframes 2' and j.

is denotes the two pumping-cylinders which are operated by the high-pressure side, through a plunger Z, which reciprocates in and out transversely through the side of these cylinders, and m the two similar cylinders on the low-pressure side which are worked by a similar plunger n. The cylinders are in three parts, as shown in Fig. 2 thelower part forming the intake-chamber '(m' in Fig. 2) and the upper parts 70 m forming the discharge-chambers; and these parts being separated by partitions m m which carry the self-closing, upwardlyopening valves, common to pumping-engines of this class, and which are not herein shown as they form no part of my invention.

The intake water is brought to the pumping-cylinders through the main pipe 0, and connected to the lower chambers m thereof by the two threebranched castings 7), said castings being connected in series as shown and the two branches thereof each going to opposite cylinders. This is according to the design heretofore in use, and according to such design the discharge is identical with and immediately over the intake. Now, ac-- cording to my invention such tour-branch discharge-way is abolished. and instead the'reof the upper chambers Z1 of the two high-pressure cylinders in are connected by pipes q to the upper chambers m of the cyllit) H the condenser 1/ inders m on the low-pressure side, so as to discharge therei-t ough; and the chambers m in turn are connected by the two-branched pipe 1' to an elbow s, which delivers intc immediately beneath; this condenser being therefore at the side of the low-pressure engine to the cylinder of which it is connected by the exhaust-pipe a, such connection necessitating but two rectangul'ai' and two half-rectangular bends in s t the greater economy and simplicity stead oi the much 'teater length of pipe of in cost oipiping end ootmned. by my 1 proved d1 gositlcn elements, it 1: also to be noted that the location of the 1 f. the say;

condenser shown isinuch more convenient locmion, which being; disposed i ely over the intai: could not be set 1ii(;()ll -3Vl but had to be placed it n at 0 he i v .L civil krill:

the low-pressure side of the engine, exhaustpiping Join the e gihe-cylinders to said condenser, and e twobmnehed dischargepipe leading from saidf low-pressiire discharge-chambers into said condenser.

3. In a pumpin plant of thetype desci'ihed, the combination with the ccinpcundengine consisting of highand low-pressure engines disposed side by side in parallel relation, tour upright pump-cylinders disposed in two pairs, the cylinders of each pair being in tandem relation in the center line of the cylinder, a pair of plungers one of which operates in each. pair of cylinders and is driven by the respective en gins, each of said cylinders being divided into three parts, a ccndensei st the side of the lowpressure engine, pipes connecting the discharge passages of. the high-pressure pumpcylinders with those cf the lovwpressnie p11n p-cylinders, and s branched pipe connecting the latter with the condenser.

4.1. In 11f puinpingehgihe olent of the tyne described, the combine poundengine consislni cf :1 highand lowpressure horizontal engine disposed si le by side in parallel relation, two pairs cf I er L n L' icnl pump-cyii:oileie he neinhers o t 1 nine being disposed in ts'neei.

respective engines and ti e on; pair being; opposite each ct selo'. pumm 7 each at J chemo itese s on the n.

parallel, and arranged at the corners of a rectangle, 'a steamengine at one side of said cylinders and adapted to pump Water from the lower end to the top thereof, intake-piping leading to said cylinders and delivering into the bottom thereof from the side opposite to said engine, and a pair of 'dischargepipes at right-angles to the direction of said intake-piping leadingfrom the top-ends of 10 said c'ylinders, each of said discharge-pipes CORNELIUS T. MYERS.

Witnesses ELBERT B. HAND, MAUDE Wm). 

